Manifolding sales book



. April 17, 1928.

A. H. PHILLIPS MANIFOLDIQN'G SALES BOOK File i April 17. 1924 BY W M.

ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 17,1928. 1,666,506

UNITED STAT-ES PATENT I ornca.

ARTHUR H. PHILLIPS, OF HEMPSTEAI), NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'IO AMERICAN SALES BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, 01' TOBONTQ CANADA, A CORPORATION OF CANADA.

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, Application filed April 17, 1024. Serial ll'o. 707,027.

This invention relates to salesbooks, and 4 by staples 5 and the originals and dupliwith respect to its more s ecific features, to cates 1 and 2 consist of a sin 1e sheet foldsalcsbooks in which a p urality of copies ed upon itself as at 6 and etachably atmay be made in a single book in a new and tached to the triplicate sheet 3 at 7 at a improved manner. point from the stub 4.

A further ob'ect is to provide a book of The form of book above described is an so the character escribed, 111 which carbons embodiment of an invention claimed-in my may be inserted from a free side of the-book co-pending application Serial Number 608,- with assurance that the carbon sheet will 620. filed December 23, 1922. cover the entirerecord face of the under The salesbook is rovided with a backing leaves. i extending as at 9, eyond the record sheets.

A further object is to provide a book of 1 and 2 and the main portion of the sheets the character described to be simple'in ma- 3 along one edge, as for example, the edge nipulation, inexpensive in construction, and opposite the stub 4. Each of the bound which may be constructed to make an numrecord sheets 3, is provided with an extenber of records desired from a sing e pad. sion 10 which is detachably attached there- The invention accordingly comprises an to. These extensions 10 are built up mto a article of manufacture. possessing the feastub 11 to a height commensurate with the tures, properties, and the relation of elethickness of the salesbook and in this stub ments which will be exemplified in the artithere are fastened transfer sheets 12 and 18 cle hereinafter described and the scope of which thus extend in the direction of and 76 \the application of which will be indicated are adapted to be interleaved between the in the claims. f record sheets. By reason of the, fact that For'a fuller understanding of the nature the transfer sheets are supported substanand objects of the invention, reference tially at the height at which they will be should be had to the following detailed deused and that they normally extend in the as scrlption taken in connection with the acdirection in which they will be used, it will companying drawing, in which: be clear that they may be manipulated with Figure 1 is a perspective view of a salesa minimum of folding and without the difiibook embodying this invention. culties-resultin'g therefrom.

Fig. 2 is a modification thereof, showing Should it be desired to provide an addia difierent attachment of the auxiliary tionalset oftransfer sheets for use with leaves. the record sheets of the latter portion of the Fig. 3 is a view of a modification similar book, another set of transfer sheets 14 and to that of Fig. 2 but carrying tissues by 15 may be bound at a suitable intermediate which a septuplicate record ma be made. portion of the stub and each of these inter- In salesbooks having a plum ity of leaves mediate transfer sheets may be protectedbv bopnd into a pad, it is desirable for many suitable protective tissue sheets 16-17,

p rposes to insert transfer sheets bet-ween which mav also be bound within the stub.

the leaves and to retain said sheets in per- In the form illustrated in Fig. 2, detachmanent position convenient for such inserable sheets 21 and 22 of each set are attached tion. to the bound sheet 23 at the lower end as In accordance with this invention, the shown at 24, instead of at the top end as in transfer sheet is so mounted that its normal the form first illustrated. In this modificaresiliency causes it to extend in the direction therefore, the carbon sheet 25 may be tion of the record sheets so that it may be bound within the stub 26 corresponding to interleaved between them without folding. the stub 4 of the form first illustrated, while In the embodiment of the invention illusthe other carbon 27 mav be bound within trated in Fig. 1, the book comprises a pluthe auxiliary stub 28. This form of the inrality of record leaves as, for example, an vention is convenient to manipulate by reaoriginal 1, a duplicate 2, and a triplicate 3. son of the fact that the detachable sheets are 1 5 As illustrated the triplicates 3 of the sucattached to the bound sheets near the point cessive sets of leaves extend beyond the 29 at which the bound sheets are attached other leaves to be bound together in a stub to the auxiliary stub. In this manner the sales record.

scription on these third transfer sheet 34-. comprising a piece transfer sheet 35 double-faced carbon-may permanent stub to'lie between the sheets 32 above device and detachable sheets serve as a handle for the breaking of the bound sheet from the auxiliary stub.

In either of'the modifications illustrated,

6 auxiliary tissue sheets may be provided on any or all oflthe record sheets in order to provide a greater number. of copies of the In Fig. 3, such 32 and 33. Sheets 30 and 31 areattached to the under and upper sides respectively of the first and second record sheets, near the upper end, that is, near the fold, while sheets 32 and 33 are attached to the under and upper .faces respectively of thesecond and third record sheets near the-lower end.

For the purpose of transferring the insheets, an additional or of double-faced carbon, may be bound within theauxiliary stub in position to lie between the sheets 30 and 31 and a'fourth also comprising apiece of be bound within the and 33.

Since certain changes may difierent embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, itis intended that all matter contained inthe above description or shown in the accompanying 35 drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative andnot in a limiting sense. I

ing claims are intended to cover all of the generic and speclfic 'featuresof the inven- 40 tion herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention, which, as a mat- ,ter of language, might besaid to fall therebetween.

Having described m invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A salesbook comprising, in combinaa modification is illustrated 10 in connection with the book of Fig. 2. There are thus provided additional tissues 30, 21,

be made in the rection opposite to It is also to be understood that the follow- 7 tion, plurality of and to a back to form a'stub, each of said sheets having a detachable extension on a side other than that toward the stub, said detachable extensions being bound together to'fQrm a dummy stub, and carbon sheets interleaved between said first mentioned sheets projecting into and bound within said dummy, but free from said first mentioned stub.

2. A salesbook comprising, in combination, a plurality of leaves being bound together and to -a back to form a stub, each of said leaves having an extension on the side opposite said stub, said extensions being 1 bound together into said back to form a dummy stub, and carbon sheets bound within said dummy stub positioned to be inter- I leaved between said first mentioned leaves,

said carbon sheets terminating short of said first mentioned stub.

3. A salesbook comprising, inv combination, a plurality of leaves bound together and to a back to form a stub, each of said leaves having a detachable extension, said detachable extensions being attached together to form an auxiliary stub, a plurality of auxiliary record sheets attached to each of said bound record sheets and a carbon sheetbound within said auxiliary stub. between said record sheets which said sets are a book, a support bon sheets attached to said support, nor

mall lying in a direction extending toward and ying in a position adapted to be' placed between the leaves of said book.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ARTHUR H. PHILLIPS.

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